(a.) Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the locus ceruleus and nucleus basalis, where tangles have a loose or globose structure, correlations with neuronal counts were not significant.
(2) The flat acuity-luminance function of the falcon results from adaptations which increase the optical sensitivity of the eye compared with the globose eye of strongly diurnal falconiformes.
(3) An electron-microscopic study revealed that the subcortical NFT in NCS are made up of paired helical filaments in spite of their globose round shape.
(4) In the brain of embryos from normal females these cells had mainly a round or oval form (globose microglia).
(5) Corticobasal degeneration shows similar midbrain pathology and a round, filamentous inclusion in the substantia nigra, not unlike the globose tangle, but there is also focal frontoparietal cortical atrophy.
(6) The results suggest that the stem cells of the olfactory cells are globose basal cells and not basal cells proper, and that the shape of basal cells proper changes in relation to the active proliferation of stem cells.
(7) At autopsy prominent globose neurofibrillary tangles with variable cell loss, microglial nodules, and neuronophagia were found in the locus ceruleus, third cranial nerve complex, nucleus supratrochlearis, nucleus centralis superior, and nucleus basalis of Meynert with mild pallor of the globus pallidus, mild cell loss in the dentate nucleus of the cerebellum, and sparing of the superior colliculus.
(8) In Pythium species and in several related Oomycetes, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the nontranscribed spacer (NTS) region with one primer specific for the 5S gene revealed, with several exceptions, that the 5S rRNA gene was present in the rDNA repeat of those species with filamentous sporangia and was absent from the rDNA repeat of those with globose or unknown sporangia.
(9) Three major sporangial morphotypes were consistently observed on leaf blades: oval, globose, and fusiform.
(10) Cultures revealed rapidly growing yellow colonies on Sabouraud dextrose agar medium at 25 degrees C. Sporangiophores branched in sympodia and the sporangia were globose, 35-60 microns in diameter.
(11) When a single dose of BrdU was given to mice 9 days after axotomy, immunostaining for BrdU was found in the globose basal cells which were negative for MA903, but not in the basal cells proper which were positive for MA903.
(12) Furthermore, three pulses of BrdU resulted in numerous BrdU-immunolabelings in the globose basal cells and a few in the basal cells proper.
(13) At the 7th-8th weeks the hepatocytes show a globose shape, their surface is furnished with scattered and irregular evaginations and they are arranged in loose and narrow ribbons, separated by vascular spaces; the hepatocytes are tightly connected with haemopoietic cells, usually furnished with hyperchromatic nuclei.
(14) The colony morphology, the presence of globose sporangia bearing motile spores, the absence of aerial mycelium and the presence of meso-DAP in cell wall, ascribe this strain to the genus Actinoplanes.
(15) In the globose cauda (Nicander's region 8), the principal cells are reduced in height, and in addition to the features described in region 7, are characterized by a concentric array of rough endoplasmic reticulum in the basal cytoplasm.
(16) These axons terminate in characteristic globose structures resembling the glomeruli of the olfactory bulb.
(17) This pseudostratified epithelium consists of apical supporting cells, a middle layer of olfactory receptor neurons and a heterogeneous population of basal cells consisting of basal cells proper and globose basal cells.
(18) These results further confirmed that NCAM was expressed by both globose basal cells and receptor neurons but not by other cell types within the epithelium.
(19) Globose and club-shaped, one- and two-celled microconidia were formed especially 'en thrse'.
(20) Cunninghamella antarctica has conidiophores usually verticillately, pseudoverticillately and sympodially branched; and globose conidia with evident spines, 12-8-16micron in diameter.
Globular
Definition:
(a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(2) Sedimentation-velocity experiments indicate the M. elsdenii enzyme (s20,w = 4.95 S) to be essentially globular, while the D. vulgaris enzyme (s20,w = 4.1 S) has a less symmetric shape.
(3) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(4) The native mass of factor a was estimated to be 240-260 kDa by gel filtration, but its sedimentation rate in a glycerol gradient was similar to that of a much smaller globular protein, suggesting an extended conformation.
(5) In particular, nitration of Tyr-51 provoked a structural perturbation in the globular region.
(6) The globular cells appeared to receive numerous afferents with GABA- or glycine-like immunoreactivity on their somata.
(7) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
(8) Sera reactive with this protein identify a distinctive globular nuclear antigen.
(9) Cells with demarcated borders showed rearrangement of microvilli into globular chains or ridges which lined up with the branching membrane.
(10) It is suggested that the neoplastic cells produced the fibronectin, which accumulated in globular form.
(11) 88, 543--555] have shown that these derivatives act as partial agonists at the platelet ADP receptor inducing only the transition from discoid to globular morphology ('shape change').
(12) Thereafter, 27S species adsorbed avidly to it and collapsed into characteristic configurations containing four globular domains, each linked to the others by three approximately 33-nm struts.
(13) Extensive surgical resections of neocortical cerebral tissue (including hemispherectomies) from 13 infants and children with infantile spasms showed that 12 of 13 specimens contained either malformative and dysplastic lesions of the cortex and white matter (sometimes with associated hamartomatous proliferation of globular cells), or destructive lesions possibly acquired as a result of anoxic-ischemic injury, or a combination of the two.
(14) In this more nearly globular shape, CAM reveals to the environment two interior pockets that contain a number of hydrophobic residues, in agreement with NMR data suggesting involvement of such residues in the binding of inhibitors and proteins to CAM.
(15) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
(16) Examination of the SnF2-treated dentin surfaces showed a dense layer of globular particles and in addition some larger particles.
(17) They are calibrated or tested against a large body of experimental data, including extended basis set ab initio, quantum mechanical calculations, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic data and dipole moment data for di- and oligopeptides, characteristic ratio data for random coil homopolypeptides, extensive data from peptide solubility studies, and experimental structures of polyalanine fibres and globular proteins.
(18) We have found that mycoplasma virus L172 is an enveloped globular virion containing circular, single-stranded DNA of 14.0 kilobases.
(19) Overlapping cDNA clones that span the entire length of the corresponding 7.2-kb mRNA reveal an encoded polypeptide of 236,278 D that is predicted to contain two globular domains separated by a discontinuous alpha-helix with characteristics for adopting a coiled-coil structure.
(20) The shape of the protein is approximately globular (S20.w = 4.18 S).